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Author: Mike Garfias
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: Help correcting system time
You can set the hwclock from the cmd line to GMT using the hwclock command.

MST = GMT -7

SO run 'date', grab the time, add 7 hours, and feed that string into hwclock.

Siri Amrit Kaur spoke forth with the blessed manuscript:
> On Thursday 28 April 2005 06:23 pm, Mike Garfias wrote:
> > I always leave the hw clock set to GMT, and use the TZ environment variable
> > to correct.
> >
> OK. I don't know how to set the hw clock to GMT. If it's done in BIOS, I don't
> have an option for GMT; I'll have to find out what GMT is in relation to MST.
> If it's done somewhere else than the BIOS, then where? How?
>
> > set TZ='America/Phoenix'
>
> My /etc/timezone file already is configured for 'America/Phoenix'
>
> > export TZ
> >
> > Put that in your .profile, or equivelant.
>
> I don't know what your last sentence means, or how to do that.
>
> Thanks for your help.
> Siri Amrit
>
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